Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,412, Zedekiah Fisk, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
Fisk, Gedekeah
NUMBER _____
S. 30. 412.
Continental Mass.
CONTENTS

553 Massachusetts
Zedekiah Fisk of Franklin in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company by Captain Barnum of the Regt by Col Packard in the Mass line for 9 years
This certificate was issued in lieu of one dated 24 Sept 1832 which allowed the pension $36.00 per annum cancelled
Inscribed on the Roll of Pensions at the rate of $80 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1833
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of April 1833 and sent Hon Geo Gunnell Jr Greenfield Mass Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 $24.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4th Mar 34 $40.00
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Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Wm C Dyer Clerk Book 2 Vol. 2 Page 57
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Zedekiah Fisk Wendell
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Nov. 7. 1832
Mr. Green

Commonwealth of Massachusetts } County of Franklin }
On this thirteenth day of November 1832. personally appeared in open court, before the Courts of Common Pleas now sitting in & for the County aforesaid, Zedekiah Fisk a resident of Wendell in said County aged sixty nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated; In the month of June 1780. he enlisted for six months into Capt. Josiah Smiths company in Col. Marshalls regiment Genl. Patersons Brigade, was at West Point & New Jersey & in Dec. was dismissed and again in August 1781. he enlisted for three months into Capt. Conants company in Col. Seers Regiment, was stationed at Saratoga in the state of New York, & having faithfully served said term was then discharged In May 1782. he enlisted for three years into Capt. Burnhams company in Col. Jacksons regiment, & on the 30 th June 1783, was honorably discharged as will appear by his discharge in the Secretarys office - that on the 15 th September 1818. he applied to Joshua Green Esq. then a Judge of the County Courts, to obtain from the Secretary of War a Certificate of Pension under Act of 18 th March 1818. that he received one, but was afterwards, stricken off on account of property, that in July last he again applied to said Joshua Green Esq. to send his application to the War Office, hoping to be restored to his former pension - but instead thereof received a Certificate N o 553. for only $36.66. per Annum, in which he thinks there must be a mistake, as his last term of service would amount to more than that, under the new acts, he therefore hopes it may be corrected, including the several terms of service; He relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State Sworn to, & subscribed, the day & year aforesaid - Zedekiah Fisk
Attest E. Alvord Clerk
13 Nov. Sworn E.A.
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
Attest E. Alvord Clerk

I Elijah Alvord clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the county of Franklin, do hereby certify that the foregoing  within contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Jedediah Fisk, for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this thirteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
E. Alvord clerk

30412 Reg INVALID.
Mch. 26/94 Out West. 6- Mrs. Anna Fiske M. Smith 73 Mansfield St. New Haven
File No. 30412
Zeckish Fish Bi Rev Mrs
Act: June 7 th 89 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 198
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Gedaliah Smith in the Ammon Regiment, being inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York, the Twentieth Day of June
1781
By the General's Command, H. M c Intosh B Genl
C. Nelson Capt. & B t
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
Charles Nelson
Adjutant

3979 Massachusetts Roll.
Zedekiah Fisk
Private
Mass Line 2 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 15. of Sept. 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28. of Oct. 1818 and sent to Joshua Green, Esq. Wendell, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819
Semi-annual ending
arr d 5 m s 16/30 4/31.
$ 45. 29
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
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Massachusetts  Zedekiah Fisk
of Franklin Co. in the State of Mass ts who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Burnham of the reg t commanded by Col. Jackson in the Mass ts line for eleven months from 1782
I pay
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per ann. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of Septem- ber, 1832 - and sent to J. Green Wendell. Mass.
Arrears to 4th of September 1832 $ 55.00 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 March 1833 18. 33
$ 73.33
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by H. Williams Clerk, Book D , Vol. 2 , Page
See letter 28 July 1837 to H. A. G. Grannall

The certificate is issued in lieu of one dated 26 September 1832. which allowed the pension $36. 66 / 100 per annum -

Remainder MS Aug 18-8
Greenleaf Wendell May
Hon. the Lewis of  of
1869
Send cut s of
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Bowdoin
Fish
Fish
Secretary of War
City of Washington
D. C.

I Zedekiah Fisk of Wendell in the County of Franklin, Do testify & declare, that I personally know Benjamin Ray of Shutesbury in the same County, am knowing to his enlisting into the Continental Army during the revolutionary war, for the last three years service; saw him frequently while in the army, particu- larly in the winter of 1783, when we were stationed at Newburg & New Windsor Huts for the winter, and am pretty confident he was discharged in December of that winter. — I remained in the Army untill the June following. — Zedekiah Fisk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. —
The Subscriber a V. Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Franklin in the Western Circuit of this Commonwealth. —
Do hereby certify that Zedekiah Fisk, signer to the foregoing declaration, personally appeared before me & made solemn Oath to the truth of the same, & I do further certify that I consider the said Zedekiah Fisk, a man of Credibility. — Given under my hand & sealed with the Seal of the Court aforesaid this first day of December A D : 1818. —
Joshua Green S. J. C. C. C. C. P. J. P.

STATE OF Massachusetts } ss      Wendeell 26 th July 1832. Franklin COUNTY. }
Be it Known, That before me Joshua Green a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Levi Dikiah Fisk and made Oath in due form of Law, that he is the identical Levi Dikiah Fisk named in an original Certificate in his possession, of which (I certify) the following to be a true copy.
War Department.—Revolutionary Claim.
I hereby certify, That in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 18th of March, 1818, Deborah Fish — late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List—Roll of the MASSACHUSETTS AGENCY, at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth — day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighteen . —
GIVEN at the WAR-OFFICE of the UNITED STATES, this twenty eighth day of October one thousand eight hundred and eighteen . J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War.
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War.
1111 The said Fiske prays that agreeably to Act of Congress of June 1832, he may be restored to the Pension List from which he was stricken on account of property. That he is entitled to a pension of Eight dollars per month, on account of services rendered to the United States, during the Revolutionary War, that he served in Captain Burnhams - company of light infantry in the 8 th Col: Jacksons Regiment ; That he now resides in Wendell - and has resided there for the space of fifty six years past; and that previous thereto, he resided in Waltham . —
Swear and subscribed this
26 th day of July - 1880.
Before use
Justice Peace.
Vredeliefd Lijk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Franklin ss. Wendell 2: August 1832. —
I Joshua Green a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Franklin, Do hereby Certify that the four foregoing Applicants, mostly three years men in the Revolutionary War, upon the publication of the Acts of Congress of 18 th March 1818. applied to me who was then a member of a Courts of record for this County, for the benefits thereof; that I made out their several applications, all which, together with the Discharges of such as had kept them, I transmitted to the War Office, & received from thence their Certificates as being placed upon the Pension List. — That when dropt, they did not apply for a renewal of Pension, being discouraged by the attempts of others who were not restored. — That they are all farmers, & unable by reason of age to contribute materially to a support by labor. — & I further Certify that I consider each & all of them as men of truth & credibility, in witness whereof, I hereunto sets my hand the Day & year first above written. —
Joshua Green Justice Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts —
Franklin ss. I Elijah Alvord, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the Commonwealth of Massachu- setts, for the county of Franklin, do certify that Joshua Green Esq. before whom the several affidavits herunto annexed were verified, is a Justice of the Peace for the said county, and as such is duly qualified to administer oaths and take affidavits. And I believe his name subscribed to the several annexed certificates to be his true and proper signa- -ture. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Greenfield, on the fourth day of August in the year of our Lord one thou- -sand eight hundred and thirty two.
E. Alvord Clerk

Payments to be made at Boston by the Pres ts U.S. Branch Bank Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of Massachusetts
Recorded by Wm Allison Clerk, in Book D. Vol. 2, page 51

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June 1832, n  Yedekiah Fisk of the State of Massachusetts who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Thirty six dollars, and Sixty six cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty fourth day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Acting John B. B. Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }

The enclosed Certificate which was supposed to be lost, was handed to me by Mr. Wilson on the 27th of January 1834.
D. K. Addison Clerk Custom Office

Washington Mar 4 1833
James L Edwards Esq
Sir
In consequence of the passage of the joint Resolution of yesterday 24 pl an act of the Law of 1832 granting pensions etc. I return the papers of Frederick Fisk, with a request that you will re-examine his case and increase his pension
I am Sir
with great respect
Yours
Geo. Greenall

War Department Pension Office Feby 28 th 1833
Sir
I herewith return the pension Certificate of Zedekiah Fisk, and have to state that it appears from his declaration that he entered the Service in May 1782: as the War terminated on the 11 th April 1783 he could not have served more than 11 months during the War, for which Service he has been pensioned. He is not therefore entitled to greater rate of pension.
I am Respectfully Your Ob t Servant J L Edwards
Hon George Grennell House of Representatives

FIELD SEP 12
FREE
James L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.

Greenfield Mass. Sep 11. 1833
James L. Edwards Esq Comm ee Pensions
Sir
I wish to inquire after the application of Dederick Fisk of Mass s for a pension. I handed in his papers last winter, and his pension certificate was promptly forwarded to him, but returned; the term of service for which it was issued being considered too short. You will see by his proofs that he is entitled to have accounted to him the few months of service, which, by a resolve of the last Session of Congress, were brought within the period of the war . His certificate was issued before the passage of that Resolution - He was put upon the Pension list under the law of 1818, and among his papers will be found a regular discharge

I do not know that my name is entered on his papers. Will you Sir have his papers looked up and passed upon -
Will you have the goodness to inform me what is the pension for 2 years service as a Sergeant in the revolution
Very respectfully
Sir I am Yours
Geo. Grennell Jr

The certificate of Mr Fisk dated the 26 Sep 1892 allowing him $36. 66 per annum which is stated in the letter to have been returned here I could not find. Mr. S. Thurber directed me to record the return & find a new one B.R.B.

I Zedekiah Fisk of Wendell in the County of Franklin & Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Do testify & state that I served in the revolutionary war against the common enemy as follows. — In the beginning of May 1782 , I enlisted for three years & entered Capt. Burnhams company of Infantry, in Col. Jackson's Regiment, Genl. Pattersons Brigade, & served in said Company until the Men that were during the War were discharged, when I was arranged into Capt. Potters company in the American Regiment , & on the thirtieth of June 1784 was regularly discharged. — And by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, stand in need of assistance from my Country for support. — Zedekiah Fisk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. — Franklin ss:
Be it known, that on the Fifteenth day of September A d one thousand eight hundred & eighteen, before me Joshua Green a S. Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Franklin in the Western Circuit of this Commonwealth came Zedekiah Fisk abovenamed, & made Oath to the truth of the foregoing statement by him subscribed,
Joshua Green S. J. C. C. C. P. J. P.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I the Subscriber a Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Franklin in the Western Circuit of this Commonwealth. —
Do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the beforenamed Zedekiah Fisk is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of assistance from his country for support, & that he served in the revolutionary war a- gainst the common enemy, as he has stated in the foregoing declaration, & which I now transmit together with his discharge to the Secretary for the Department of War. Given under my hand, & sealed with the Seal of the Court aforesaid, this Fifteenth day of September A. D. 1818. —
Joshua Green S. J. C. C. C. P.

I Joseph Lack of Hadley in the County of Hampshire, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawfull age Do testify and say that I personally know Ledebrith Fish of Wendall in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth aforesaid, that in the year 1850 that he was a soldier in the Continental Army from the last of June or first of July, and was discharged in December of the same year, in the Company commanded by Capt Josiah Smith a Col o Marshall's Regiment, Gen l Paterson's Brigade, and that I was in the same Company and went with him & returned with him, and that our enlistment was for Six month and further the Deponent saith not Joseph Lack
Hampshire ss Oct 15 1833
Then Joseph Lack signed to the foregoing Declaration personally appeared before me and made solemn Oath to the truth of the same. - and I do further certify that I consider the said Joseph Lack a man of truth and credibility, given under my hand at Hadley the day and year above said Moses Porter justice of peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire ss. Solomon Stoddard Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth for the County of Hampshire do certify that Moses Porter Esq. whose signature is affixed to the within certificate was at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth - and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations, done in that capacity - And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Moses Porter and believe his signature within to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth this nineteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two. —
S. Stoddard Clerk

I Nymphas Stacy of Prescott in the County of Hampshire, & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged Sixty eight years, testify & say, that I enlisted as a Private in the service of the United States in August A.D. 1781 for three months, in the Company commanded by Capt Canant of Ware in said County, & in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Seers of Greenfield in said County - that having been mustered at Sunderland in Massachusetts I marched with others to Saratoga in the State of New York where I was stationed during the three months aforesaid, at the expiration of which term I was discharged -
I further say, that Zedekiah Fiske of Wendell then in said County, & now in the County of Franklin enlisted into the same Company, the same Regiment, for the same term - marched to & was stationed at the same place - that I became well acquainted with him while there, & that he did service faithfully for the term aforesaid - at the expiration of which term he was dismissed -
And further the deponent saith not - Nymphas Stacy
Commonwealth of Massachusetts - Franklin ss. November 10 th 1832 - Then personally appeared Nymphas Stacy, who is a Gentleman of good character for truth, & made solemn oath that the above statement by him subscribed is true -
Before me Fred: H. Allen Just. Peace -
I am acquainted with the aforesaid Capt Zedekiah Fiske, and know he sustains a fair character for truth & integrity -
Geo. Greenell M.D. M.C.
Nov 13. 1832

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin ss. I Elijah Alvord Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts do certify that the within named Frederick H. Allen Esq. is a Justice of the Peace of the said county. And I believe his name within subscribed to be his true and proper signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at Greenfield on the Thirteenth day of November in the year of our Lord 1832.
E. Alvord Clerk

7 8 5 73 Mansfield Street,
New Haven, Conn. March 9, 1894.
Hon. William Lochren,
Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir:-
I have the honor to request for genealogical and historical purposes, any information that may be found in the files of the Pension Office, concerning the services in the War of the Revolution of David Johnson (1715-1799) of Leominster, Massachusetts who was called Lieutenant Johnson at his death, his son-in-law Capt. Henry Sweetzer not on list or 2 or Rej of Wendell, Mass. (1759-1827), and his son-in-law Capt. Zedekiah Fisk not on list (1764-18 ) of Wendell.
If they or their widows did not apply for pensions their names may be on the applications of other Revolutionary Soldiers from those towns. Samuel Orcutt, Nathaniel Wilder (died 1851), Samuel Reed and Jacob Harwood besides Captain Sweetzer and Zedekiah Fisk, are names of soldiers of the Revolution mentioned in the chapter of the Connecticut Valley History devoted to the town of Wendell, Mass.; one of them Nathaniel Wilder lived until 1851 and must have drawn a pension, very likely others of the above mentioned persons did also, so that possibly the names of Capt. Henry Sweetzer and Zedekiah Fisk appear on their pension papers.
Lieut. David Johnson is stated in the Johnson Family" book (1893) edition pages 41 and 20 to have served at the Battle of Bunker Hill, He died Nov. 10, 1799, his 2nd wife Prudence Divoll survived him, the date of her death is not known to me at present.
Capt. Henry Sweetzer married his daughter Lucy Johnson, he died June 18, 1827; she died Feb. 16, 1835, in Wendell, Mass. Their daughter Lucy Sweetzer married Zedekiah Fisk, they lived in Wendell, the date of his death is not known by me, she died Apr. 21, 1835.
Capt. Zedekiah Fisk (1763-18 ) was my Gt. grandfather, Capt. Henry Sweetzer his father-in-law and Lieut. David Johnson was his father-in-law. As it must be rather uncommon to find that men of 3 generations served in the same I am the more anxious to procure any information concerning these persons.
Very respectfully,
Mrs. Anna Fiske M. Smith

To Chf. OWTR Div. Action _____ APR 17 1896 COMMISSIONER.
Gen. Dana
Please give Mr. Morris an opportunity to examine the records mentioned and give him such aid as may be useful
Yrs Lechner Census

2.30412
Washington, D.C., April 2, 1896.
2.30412
Hon. Wm. Lockren,
Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir:-
I have the honor to request that the bearer of this letter, Mr. Stillman Moore, New Haven a native of Massachusetts, but for many years a resident of Connecticut, be allowed to inspect and copy from the Rev. pension papers of his grand-father Zedekiah Fisk (1763-1844), which are in the Pension Office. As the pension was suspended for a time between 1820 and 1832 there are undoubtedly affidavits with signatures, testimony and statements, by various members of his family and other relatives which would be very interesting for Mr. Moore to examine. Mr. R. A. Smith of the Record and Pension Office, War Department, a son-in-law of Mr. Moore and with whom Mr. M. resides. is looking up the records of a Fiske ancestor of mine, and the information gained from these papers may also be of interest to myself.
Yours truly,
Charles A. Russell